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Peter Ackroyd
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Publisher | Vintage | ||
ISBN | 978-009942255 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces. Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details, and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable and captivating guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it.
Review
The Thames is a sequel to the book that the Peter Ackroyd wrote about London. He has an almost spritual and inspirational way with words. All aspects of the Thames are covered from its source at Tewsbury Mead to where the river meets the sea at Tilbury. Peter Ackrpoyd shows us how the Thames is celebrated in Art and Literature, and the part it played in Englands long and turblent history.
I like the idea of the Water Nymphs becouse at one time there were shrines along the river bank where people left offerings. A beautifully written book that I enjoyed very much and I am sure will become a classic.
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